A Video Game Flopped Harder Than Anything At The Box Office This Year, And The Mainstream Press Barely Noticed

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A Video Game Flopped Harder Than Anything At The Box Office This Year, And The Mainstream Press Barely Noticed
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Sony's Concord might be the biggest entertainment failure of all time, so why wasn't it news?

In the summer of 2024, an entertainment project went more spectacularly wrong than possibly any entertainment project in human history. A venture that cost an approximated $400 million, and is thought to have made back only $1 million, representing a flop that dwarfs the likes of movie disasters Joker : Folie à Deux and Borderlands. Yet, if you don’t read the specialist gaming press, there’s a really good chance you’ve never even heard of it.

Because, of course, this story of a business losing nearly half a billion dollars is for the kids! This is indicative of that ever-more inexplicable separation, this imaginary wall that the press has built around itself to—for some reason—keep gaming out. Fifty Years Later This made more sense in the 1990s.

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